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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Swine Flu Truth, Get the Facts Now!

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Critical Alert: The Swine Flu Pandemic – Fact or Fiction?

American health officials declared a public health emergency as cases of swine flu were confirmed in the U.S. Health officials across the world fear this could be the leading edge of a global pandemic emerging from Mexico, where seven people are confirmed dead as a result of the new virus.

On Monday April 27th, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised its pandemic alert level to four on its six-level threat scale,1 which means they've determined that the virus is capable of human-to-human transmission. The initial outbreaks across North America reveal an infection already traveling at higher velocity than did the last official pandemic strain, the 1968 Hong Kong flu.

swine fluThe number of fatalities, and suspected and confirmed cases across the world change depending on the source, so your best bet -- if you want the latest numbers -- is to use Google Maps' Swine Flu Tracker.

Several nations have imposed travel bans, or made plans to quarantine air travelers2 that present symptoms of the swine flu, such as:

Top global flu experts are trying to predict how dangerous the new swine flu strain will be, as it became clear that they had little information about Mexico's outbreak. It is as yet unclear how many cases occurred in the month or so before the outbreak was detected. It's also unknown whether the virus was mutating to be more lethal, or less.

Much Fear Mongering Being Promoted

I suspect you have likely been alarmed by the media's coverage of the swine flu scare. It has a noticeable subplot - preparing you for draconian measures to combat a future pandemic as well as forcing you to accept the idea of mandatory vaccinations.

On April 27, Time magazine published an article which discusses how dozens died and hundreds were injured from vaccines as a result of the 1976 swine flu fiasco, when the Ford administration attempted to use the infection of soldiers at Fort Dix as a pretext for a mass vaccination of the entire country.

Despite acknowledging that the 1976 farce was an example of “how not to handle a flu outbreak”, the article still introduces the notion that officials “may soon have to consider whether to institute draconian measures to combat the disease”.

WHO and CDC Pandemic Preparedness Seriously Broken

The pandemic warning system has failed as it simply doesn't exist, even in North America and Europe. To improve the system, massive new investments in surveillance, scientific and regulatory infrastructure, basic public health, and global access to common sense interventions like vitamin D optimization are required.

According to the Washington Post, the CDC did not learn about the outbreak until six days after Mexico had begun to impose emergency measures. There should be no excuses. The paradox of this swine flu panic is that, while totally unexpected, it was accurately predicted. Six years ago, Science dedicated a major story to evidence that "after years of stability, the North American swine flu virus has jumped onto an evolutionary fasttrack".

However, maybe this is precisely what public health authorities desire.

This is NOT the First Swine Flu Panic

My guess is that you can expect to see a lot of panic over this issue in the near future. But the key is to remain calm -- this isn't the first time the public has been warned about swine flu. The last time was in 1976, right before I entered medical school and I remember it very clearly. It resulted in the massive swine flu vaccine campaign.

Do you happen to recall the result of this massive campaign?

Within a few months, claims totaling $1.3 billion had been filed by victims who had suffered paralysis from the vaccine. The vaccine was also blamed for 25 deaths.

However, several hundred people developed crippling Guillain-Barré Syndrome after they were injected with the swine flu vaccine. Even healthy 20-year-olds ended up as paraplegics.

And the swine flu pandemic itself? It never materialized.

More People Died From the Swine Flu Vaccine than Swine Flu!

It is very difficult to forecast a pandemic, and a rash response can be extremely damaging.

As of Monday April 27, the worldwide total number of confirmed cases was 82, according to WHO, which included 40 cases in the U.S., confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control. But does that truly warrant the feverish news headlines?

To put things into perspective, malaria kills 3,000 people EVERY DAY, and it's considered "a health problem"... But of course, there are no fancy vaccines for malaria that can rake in billions of dollars in a short amount of time.

One Australian news source,3 for example, states that even a mild swine flu epidemic could lead to the deaths of 1.4 million people and would reduce economic growth by nearly $5 trillion dollars.

Give me a break, if this doesn't sound like the outlandish cries of the pandemic bird-flu I don't know what does. Do you remember when President Bush said two million Americans would die as a result of the bird flu?

In 2005, in 2006, 2007, and again in 2008, those fears were exposed as little more than a cruel hoax, designed to instill fear, and line the pocketbooks of various individuals and industry. I became so convinced by the evidence AGAINST the possibility of a bird flu pandemic that I wrote a New York Times bestselling book, The Bird Flu Hoax, all about the massive fraud involved with the epidemic that never happened..

swine fluWhat is the Swine Flu?

Regular swine flu is a contagious respiratory disease, caused by a type-A influenza virus that affects pigs. The current strain, A(H1N1), is a new variation of an H1N1 virus -- which causes seasonal flu outbreaks in humans -- that also contains genetic material of bird and pig versions of the flu.

Interestingly enough, this version has never before been seen in neither human nor animal, which I will discuss a bit later.

This does sound bad. But not so fast. There are a few reasons to not rush to conclusions that this is the deadly pandemic we've been told would occur in the near future (as if anyone could predict it without having some sort of inside knowledge).

Why a True Bird- or Swine Flu Pandemic is HIGHLY Unlikely

While in my opinion it is highly likely factory farming is responsible for producing this viral strain, I believe there is still no cause for concern.

You may not know this, but all H1N1 flu's are descendants of the 1918 pandemic strain. The reason why the flu shot may or may not work, however, from year to year, is due to mutations. Therefore, there's no vaccine available for this current hybrid flu strain, and naturally, this is feeding the fear that millions of people will die before a vaccine can be made.

However, let me remind you of one very important fact here.

Just a couple of months ago, scientists concluded that the 1918 flu pandemic that killed between 50-100 million people worldwide in a matter of 18 months -- which all these worst case scenarios are built upon -- was NOT due to the flu itself!4

Instead, they discovered the real culprit was strep infections.

People with influenza often get what is known as a "superinfection" with a bacterial agent. In 1918 it appears to have been Streptococcus pneumoniae.

Since strep is much easier to treat than the flu using modern medicine, a new pandemic would likely be much less dire than it was in the early 20th century, the researchers concluded.

Others, such as evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald,5 claim that a pandemic of this sort simply cannot happen, because in order for it to occur, the world has to change. Not the virus itself, but the world.

In a previous interview for Esquire magazine, in which he discusses the possibility of a bird flu pandemic, he states:

"They think that if a virus mutates, it's an evolutionary event. Well, the virus is mutating because that is what viruses and other pathogens do. But evolution is not just random mutation. It is random mutation coupled with natural selection; it is a battle for competitive advantage among different strains generated by random mutation.

For bird flu to evolve into a human pandemic, the strain that finds a home in humanity has to be a strain that is both highly virulent and highly transmissible. Deadliness has to translate somehow into popularity; H5N1 has to find a way to kill or immobilize its human hosts, and still find other hosts to infect. Usually that doesn't happen."

Ewald goes on to explain that evolution in general is all about trade-offs, and in the evolution of infections the trade-off is between virulence and transmissibility.

What this means is that in order for a "bird flu" or "swine flu" to turn into a human pandemic, it has to find an environment that favors both deadly virulence and ease of transmission.

People living in squalor on the Western Front at the end of World War I generated such an environment, from which the epidemic of 1918 could arise.

Likewise, crowded chicken farms, slaughterhouses, and jam-packed markets of eastern Asia provide another such environment, and that environment gave rise to the bird flu -- a pathogen that both kills and spreads, in birds, but not in humans.

Says Ewald:

"We know that H5N1 is well adapted to birds. We also know that it has a hard time becoming a virus that can move from person to person. It has a hard time without our doing anything. But we can make it harder. We can make sure it has no human population in which to evolve transmissibility. There is no need to rely on the mass extermination of chickens. There is no need to stockpile vaccines for everyone.

By vaccinating just the people most at risk -- the people who work with chickens and the caregivers -- we can prevent it from becoming transmissible among humans. Then it doesn't matter what it does in chickens."

Please remember that, despite the fantastic headlines and projections of MILLIONS of deaths, the H5N1 bird flu virus killed a mere 257 people worldwide since late 2003. As unfortunate as those deaths are, 257 deaths worldwide from any disease, over the course of five years, simply does not constitute an emergency worthy of much attention, let alone fear!

Honestly, your risk of being killed by a lightning strike in the last five years was about 2,300 percent higher than your risk of contracting and dying from the bird flu.6 I'm not kidding! In just one year (2004), more than 1,170 people died from lighting strikes, worldwide.7

So please, as the numbers of confirmed swine flu cases are released, keep a level head and don't let fear run away with your brains.

So is the Swine Flu Getting More or Less Dangerous?

On Sunday, April 26, The Independent reported that more than 1,000 people had contracted the swine flu virus in Mexico, 8 but by the afternoon that same day, Mexican President Calderon declared that more than two-thirds of the 1,300 thought to have contracted the disease had been given a clean bill of health and sent home.9

Additionally, the number of actual confirmed cases appears to be far lower than reported in many media outlets, leading me to believe that many reporters are interchanging the terms "suspected cases" and "confirmed cases."

Interestingly Mexico is the ONLY country in the world where someone has actually died from this disease.Mexico has reported 159 fatalities in flu-like cases in recent days, seven of which have been confirmed as swine flu. Another 19 patients have been confirmed as having swine flu but surviving. About 2,000 people have been hospitalized with symptoms.By contrast, the United States has had 64 confirmed cases, five hospitalizations and no deaths from US Citizens. On April 29th CNN reported the first swine fatality in the US, however this was actually a child from Mexico that died in Texas.

According to the World Health Organization's Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response site; as of April 27, there are:

Additionally, nearly all suspected new cases have been reported as mild.

Personally, I am highly skeptical. It simply doesn't add up to a real pandemic.

But it does raise serious questions about where this brand new, never before seen virus came from, especially since it cannot be contracted from eating pork products, and has never before been seen in pigs, and contains traits from the bird flu -- and which, so far, only seems to respond to Tamiflu. Are we just that lucky, or... what?

Your Fear Will Make Some People VERY Rich in Today's Crumbling Economy

According to the Associated Press at least one financial analyst estimates up to $388 million worth of Tamiflu sales in the near future10 -- and that's without a pandemic outbreak.

More than half a dozen pharmaceutical companies, including Gilead Sciences Inc., Roche, GlaxoSmithKline and other companies with a stake in flu treatments and detection, have seen a rise in their shares in a matter of days, and will likely see revenue boosts if the swine flu outbreak continues to spread.

As soon as Homeland Security declared a health emergency, 25 percent -- about 12 million doses -- of Tamiflu and Relenza treatment courses were released from the nation's stockpile. However, beware that the declaration also allows unapproved tests and drugs to be administered to children. Many health- and government officials are more than willing to take that chance with your life, and the life of your child. But are you?

Remember, Tamiflu went through some rough times not too long ago, as the dangers of this drug came to light when, in 2007, the FDA finally began investigating some 1,800 adverse event reports related to the drug. Common side effects of Tamiflu include:

* Nausea* Vomiting* Diarrhea* Headache* Dizziness* Fatigue* Cough

All in all, the very symptoms you're trying to avoid.

More serious symptoms included convulsions, delirium or delusions, and 14 deaths in children and teens as a result of neuropsychiatric problems and brain infections (which led Japan to ban Tamiflu for children in 2007). And that's for a drug that, when used as directed, only reduces the duration of influenza symptoms by 1 to 1 ½ days, according to the official data.

But making matters worse, some patients with influenza are at HIGHER risk for secondary bacterial infections when on Tamiflu. And secondary bacterial infections, as I mentioned earlier, was likely the REAL cause of the mass fatalities during the 1918 pandemic!

Where did This Mysterious New Animal-Human Flu Strain Come From?

Alongside the fear-mongering headlines, I've also seen increasing numbers of reports questioning the true nature of this virus. And rightfully so.

Could a mixed animal-human mutant like this occur naturally? And if not, who made it, and how was it released?

Not one to dabble too deep in conspiracy theories, I don't have to strain very hard to find actual facts to support the notion that this may not be a natural mutation, and that those who stand to gain have the wherewithal to pull off such a stunt.

Just last month I reported on the story that the American pharmaceutical company Baxter was under investigation for distributing the deadly avian flu virus to 18 different countries as part of a seasonal flu vaccine shipment. Czech reporters were probing to see if it may have been part of a deliberate attempt to start a pandemic; as such a "mistake" would be virtually impossible under the security protocols of that virus.

The H5N1 virus on its own is not very airborne. However, when combined with seasonal flu viruses, which are more easily spread, the effect could be a potent, airborne, deadly, biological weapon. If this batch of live bird flu and seasonal flu viruses had reached the public, it could have resulted in dire consequences.

There is a name for this mixing of viruses; it's called "reassortment," and it is one of two ways pandemic viruses are created in the lab. Some scientists say the most recent global outbreak -- the 1977 Russian flu -- was started by a virus created and leaked from a laboratory.

Another example of the less sterling integrity of Big Pharma is the case of Bayer, who sold millions of dollars worth of an injectable blood-clotting medicine to Asian, Latin American, and some European countries in the mid-1980s, even though they knew it was tainted with the AIDS virus.

So while it is morally unthinkable that a drug company would knowingly contaminate flu vaccines with a deadly flu virus such as the bird- or swine flu, it is certainly not impossible. It has already happened more than once.

But there seems to be no repercussions or hard feelings when industry oversteps the boundaries of morality and integrity and enters the arena of obscenity. Because, lo and behold, which company has been chosen to head up efforts, along with WHO, to produce a vaccine against the Mexican swine flu?

Baxter!11 Despite the fact that ink has barely dried on the investigative reports from their should-be-criminal "mistake" against humanity.

According to other sources,12 a top scientist for the United Nations, who has examined the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa, as well as HIV/AIDS victims, has concluded that the current swine flu virus possesses certain transmission "vectors" that suggest the new strain has been genetically-manufactured as a military biological warfare weapon.

The UN expert believes that Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and the current A-H1N1 swine flu virus are biological warfare agents.

In addition, Army criminal investigators are looking into the possibility that disease samples are missing from biolabs at Fort Detrick -- the same Army research lab from which the 2001 anthrax strain was released, according to a recent article in the Fredrick News Post.13 In February, the top biodefense lab halted all its research into Ebola, anthrax, plague, and other diseases known as "select agents," after they discovered virus samples that weren't listed in its inventory and might have been switched with something else.

Factory Farming Maybe Source of Swine Flu

Another theory as to the cause of Swine Flu might be factory farming. In the United States, pigs travel coast to coast. They can be bred in North Carolina, fattened in the corn belt of Iowa, and slaughtered in California.

While this may reduce short-term costs for the pork industry, the highly contagious nature of diseases like influenza (perhaps made further infectious by the stresses of transport) needs to be considered when calculating the true cost of long-distance live animal transport.

The majority of U.S. pig farms now confine more than 5,000 animals each. With a group of 5,000 animals, if a novel virus shows up it will have more opportunity to replicate and potentially spread than in a group of 100 pigs on a small farm.

With massive concentrations of farm animals within which to mutate, these new swine flu viruses in North America seem to be on an evolutionary fast track, jumping and reassorting between species at an unprecedented rate.

Should You Accept a Flu Vaccine -- Just to be Safe?

Watch the video below on the "wall" to see ridiculous 1976 commercials promoting Swine Flu shots.

As stated in the New York Times14 and elsewhere, flu experts have no idea whether the current seasonal flu vaccine would offer any protection whatsoever against this exotic mutant, and it will take months to create a new one.

But let me tell you, getting vaccinated now would not only offer no protection and potentially cause great harm, it would most likely be loaded with toxic mercury which is used as a preservative in most flu vaccines..

I've written extensively about the numerous dangers (and ineffectiveness) of flu vaccines, and why I do not recommend them to anyone. So no matter what you hear -- even if it comes from your doctor -- don't get a regular flu shot. They rarely work against seasonal flu...and certainly can't offer protection against a never-before- seen strain.

Currently, the antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza are the only drugs that appear effective against the (human flu) H1N1 virus, and I strongly believe taking Tamiflu to protect yourself against this new virus could be a serious mistake -- for all the reasons I already mentioned above.

But in addition to the dangerous side effects of Tamiflu, there is also growing evidence of resistance against the drug. In February, the pre-publication and preliminary findings journal called Nature Precedings published a paper on this concern, stating15:

The dramatic rise of oseltamivir [Tamiflu] resistance in the H1N1 serotype in the 2007/2008 season and the fixing of H274Y in the 2008/2009 season has raised concerns regarding individuals at risk for seasonal influenza, as well as development of similar resistance in the H5N1 serotype [bird flu].

Previously, oseltamivir resistance produced changes in H1N1 and H3N2 at multiple positions in treated patients. In contrast, the recently reported resistance involved patients who had not recently taken oseltamivir.

It's one more reason not to bother with this potentially dangerous drug.

And, once a specific swine flu drug is created, you can be sure that it has not had the time to be tested in clinical trials to determine safety and effectiveness, which puts us right back where I started this article -- with a potential repeat of the last dangerous swine flu vaccine, which destroyed the lives of hundreds of people.

Topping the whole mess off, of course, is the fact that if the new vaccine turns out to be a killer, the pharmaceutical companies responsible are immune from lawsuits -- something I've also warned about before on numerous occasions.

Unfortunately, those prospects won't stop the governments of the world from mandating the vaccine -- a scenario I hope we can all avoid.

How to Protect Yourself Without Dangerous Drugs and VaccinationsFor now, my point is that there are always going to be threats of flu pandemics, real or created, and there will always be potentially toxic vaccines that are peddled as the solution. But you can break free of that whole drug-solution trap by following some natural health principles.

I have not caught a flu in over two decades, and you can avoid it too, without getting vaccinated, by following these simple guidelines, which will keep your immune system in optimal working order so that you're far less likely to acquire the infection to begin with.

* Optimize your vitamin D levels. As I've previously reported, optimizing your vitamin D levels is one of the absolute best strategies for avoiding infections of ALL kinds, and vitamin D deficiency is likely the TRUE culprit behind the seasonality of the flu -- not the flu virus itself.

This is probably the single most important and least expensive action you can take. I would STRONGLY urge you to have your vitamin D level monitored to confirm your levels are therapeutic at 50-70 ng.ml and done by a reliable vitamin D lab like Lab Corp.

For those of you in the US we hope to launch a vitamin D testing service through Lab Corp that allows you to have your vitamin D levels checked at your local blood drawing facility, and relatively inexpensively. We hope to offer this service by June 2009.

If you are coming down with flu like symptoms and have not been on vitamin D you can take doses of 50,000 units a day for three days to treat the acute infection. Some researchers like Dr. Cannell, believe the dose could even be as high as 1000 units per pound of body weight for three days.

However, most of Dr. Cannell's work was with seasonal and not pandemic flu. If your body has never been exposed to the antigens there is chance that the vitamin D might not work. However the best bet is to maintain healthy levels of vitamin D around 60 ng/ml.

BUT to keep this in perspective the regular flu, not the swine flu, has killed 13,000 in the US since January. But there is strong support that these types of figures are grossly exaggerated to increase vaccine sales. However, the fact remains that the regular flu at this point in time is FAR more dangerous than the swine flu and were you worried about the regular flu before the media started talking this up?

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Avoid Sugar and Processed Foods. Sugar decreases the function of your immune system almost immediately, and as you likely know, a strong immune system is key to fighting off viruses and other illness. Be aware that sugar is present in foods you may not suspect, like ketchup and fruit juice.*

Get Enough Rest. Just like it becomes harder for you to get your daily tasks done if you're tired, if your body is overly fatigued it will be harder for it to fight the flu. Be sure to check out my article Guide to a Good Night's Sleep for some great tips to help you get quality rest.*

Have Effective Tools to Address Stress . We all face some stress every day, but if stress becomes overwhelming then your body will be less able to fight off the flu and other illness.

If you feel that stress is taking a toll on your health, consider using an energy psychology tool such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), which is remarkably effective in relieving stress associated with all kinds of events, from work to family to trauma. You can check out my free, 25-page EFT manual for some guidelines on how to perform EFT.*

Exercise. When you exercise, you increase your circulation and your blood flow throughout your body. The components of your immune system are also better circulated, which means your immune system has a better chance of finding an illness before it spreads. You can review my exercise guidelines for some great tips on how to get started.*

Take a good source of animal based omega-3 fats like Krill Oil. Increase your intake of healthy and essential fats like the omega-3 found in krill oil, which is crucial for maintaining health. It is also vitally important to avoid damaged omega-6 oils that are trans fats and in processed foods as it will seriously damage your immune response.*

Wash Your Hands. Washing your hands will decrease your likelihood of spreading a virus to your nose, mouth or other people. Be sure you don't use antibacterial soap for this -- antibacterial soaps are completely unnecessary, and they cause far more harm than good. Instead, identify a simple chemical-free soap that you can switch your family to.*

Eat Garlic Regularly. Garlic works like a broad-spectrum antibiotic against bacteria, virus, and protozoa in the body. And unlike with antibiotics, no resistance can be built up so it is an absolutely safe product to use. However, if you are allergic or don't enjoy garlic it would be best to avoid as it will likely cause more harm than good.

* Avoid Hospitals and Vaccines In this particular case, I'd also recommend you stay away from hospitals unless you're having an emergency, as hospitals are prime breeding grounds for infections of all kinds, and could be one of the likeliest places you could be exposed to this new bug. Vaccines will not be available for six months at the minimum but when available they will be ineffective and can lead to crippling paralysis like Guillain-Barré Syndrome just as it did in the 70s.

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

The Best Natural Sunscreen that is Safe for Infants, Babies, and Sensitive Skin

After meticulous research and development, Best On Earth Products, LLC has just launched their revolutionary new UVA/UVB SPF 15 natural sunscreen, BestBloc, for protection against cancer-causing rays and sunburns. Free of toxins, this product finally gives consumers a safe natural sunscreen without synthetic chemical ingredients suspected of actually increasing cancer risk. The BestBloc formulation is an elegant sunscreen that also serves as a moisturizing cream for normal and sensitive skin types, combining safety with convenience.

BestBloc natural sunscreen, available exclusively online at www.BestOnEarthProducts.com, is formulated to eliminate all synthetic chemicals that are suspected of being toxic to humans. With all the recent press on sunscreens and cosmetics containing the toxic chemical oxybenzone, consumers are on alert, looking much more carefully at what they are putting on their skin. This formula is so safe that is can be used as an infant sunscreen.

BestBloc contains no oxybenzone or benzophenone, a registered pesticide, no avobenzone a free radical generator that penetrates through the epidermis, no methoxycinnamate which has been implicated in causing cancer, and no PABA which may play a role in cellular DNA damage. Visit the Toxic Chemical in Susnscreen blog to learn more about these toxic sunscreen chemicals.

In addition to the natural ingredients made form organic and wild crafted plant sources, four special active ingredients were combined to deliver maximum benefit. Certified Organic Calendula Co2, Certified Organic Sea Buckthorn Berry and Vitamin C and D were selected, making this natural sunscreen formula the most advanced on the market.

With BestBloc’s introduction to the market, Best On Earth Products proves to be a step ahead of the proposed new FDA 4-star rating on sunscreens. Sunlight contains two kinds of damaging rays: UVB that causes sunburn and UVA that tans but penetrates more deeply. While both can lead to melanoma and other skin cancers, experts can’t agree on how much sun is too much or how much danger sunscreens can block. Scientific tests on the BestBloc formula demonstrate it already meets the proposed federal rules intended to ensure the efficacy of sunscreens.

Is SPF 15 going to give me enough protection?

Many people use SPF 30 or above with toxic chemicals in them. What they do not understand is that you can still get sunburn with such a high SPF when you are exposed to the sun for hours at a time.

SPF — sun protection factor — measures how long your body can be exposed to UVB before burning. For example, if a person's body normally takes 20 minutes to burn, an SPF 2 lotion can delay the burn to 40 minutes. So if a person normally burns in 20 minutes, an SPF 15 should provide 300 minutes (5 hours) of protection, but an individual should not plan on being in the sun for that long.

The key to good sun protection is to limit the time you are in direct sunlight hours, such as between 10am and 2pm, wear sun protective clothing, and use all natural sunscreens that are free of toxic chemicals!

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Toxic Chemical in Sunscreens Contaminate 97% of Americans

A new study released by the Center for Disease Control shows that nearly all Americans are contaminated with the toxic chemical oxybenzone. The chemical is used primarily in sunscreens to absorb UV-ultraviolet rays. In Europe, sunscreen products that contain 0.5% or more of the chemical must be labeled, “Contains Oxybenzone,” because the chemical has been shown to penetrate into the skin. When oxybenzone gets into the layers of skin it acts as a photosensitizer and increases the production of cancer causing free radicals.

The CDC also showed a higher concentration of oxybenzone in women, most likely due to its use in other cosmetics, including moisturizers which are advertised as having sunscreen capabilities. Ironically, women who use these products to seemingly protect their skin from free radical damage, which causes pre-mature aging of the skin, are actually contributing to such damage.

2006 University of California study published in the journal, “Free Radical Biology and Medicine,” showed the longer oxybenzone and two other sunscreen chemicals remained on the skin, the more free radical damage occurred. So even though doctors and health officials have touted sunscreens as the best method to protect our skin from free radical damage which leads to skin cancer, they actually increase the damage the longer the sunscreen is left on.

The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit research organization for public interest groups, lists nearly 600 sunscreen sold in the United States that contain oxybenzone. The EWG also states that one of every eight high SPF sunscreens do not protect against UV-A radiation. With so many sunscreens on the market now linked to this and other dangerous chemicals, it is not hard to see a correlation with the one million new skin cancer cases diagnosed in 2007 alone.

Skin cancer is now the number one diagnosed cancer in men and women in the world. Squamous cell and basal cell carcinomas make up the majority of skin cancers, while melanoma contributes to 75% of all skin cancer deaths according to WebMD.

While a number of recent studies show that daily sunlight exposure actually decreases the risk of certain cancers, there is still a need to protect against over exposure to the sun. “If you are going to be in direct sun exposure for more than 20-30 minutes you should use a natural sunscreen,” states health researcher and nutritionist Thomas Von Ohlen, MS, NC.

“Stay out of the sun during the peak hours of 11 am to 3 pm if possible and consume supplements or foods high in calcium and essential fats like fish to avoid skin cell damage from sunburns.” Von Ohlen also mentions using an all natural sunscreen from www.BestOnEarthProducts.com which contains no oxybenzone or other toxic chemicals

Thomas Von Ohlen MS, NC, is a nutritionist and co-author of the book, “101 Great Ways to Improve Your Health.” He is also the developer of Plasma Pro software, a blood test analysis program for doctors. His FREE newsletter and report on weight loss is available at www.HealYourBodyNow.com

Friday, March 07, 2008

Miracle weight-loss pill is hard to swallow

The following article was published in the NY Daily News 3/6/08 and written by Eloise Parker.

"Eat all you want and still lose weight" boast the ads for Akavar 20/50, one of the most heavily advertised new weight-loss supplements on the market.

Their promise gets caught in your head, not simply because it's repeated - no, shouted - multiple times, but because, at this time of year, it sounds a lot better than going to the gym.

With New Year's workout kick winding down and months to go before bikini season, midyear sees a dramatic slump in gym activity, according to a study in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. So why don't we all just pop a pill, order a pizza and commence the fat burning? Because it's hard to believe such a miracle drug exists.

Akavar's own research chemist, Dr. Nathalie Chevreau, was happy to fill us in on a 2001 report featured in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics that stated 24 people who took Akavar lost an average of 11 pounds in 45 days, while 23 who were given a placebo lost nearly no weight at all.

In fact, she even takes it herself.

"I take one serving, which is two tablets, once in the morning to make sure I'm not too hungry for the day," says Chevreau of the pills, which cost $39.99 a bottle. "There is a slowdown of the stomach emptying into the intestine, so you have an increased sense of fullness." She attributes the process to three active herbal ingredients, yerba mate, guarana and damiana.

But that's not necessarily a good thing, say other experts.

"If it's decreasing the appetite and causing you to eat less, you're body goes into starvation mode and starts to burn lean tissue and store fat. The active ingredients are stimulants, and no one really knows what the safe doses are for any of these herbs in the long term," counters weight-loss expert and non-Akavar affiliate Dr. Dave E. David, who equates the caffeine levels in one dose to 3-1/2 cups of coffee.

"Taking more than 250mg of caffeine has been implicated in insomnia and high blood pressure," says nutritionist Thomas Von Ohlen, who works with thousands of patients to address the hundreds of different reasons for weight gain.

"The idea of one cure-all is absurd. Losing weight by taking diet pills and going to Dunkin' Donuts all day long is a biochemical impossibility," he adds. "The basic rule is, if it sounds too good to be true, it is."

Well, actually, they pretty much can, as there's no federal agency that reviews advertisements before they appear.

"They're about as bold as you can be," says lawyer Scott Shepherd of the outrageously brazen ads.

His firm, Shepherd, Finkelman, Miller & Shah, LLC, has filed a class-action lawsuit against the company, set to go to trial in 2010. "We filed our case in November 2007 based on consumer fraud claims," said Shepherd, whose firm has successfully settled a $16 million suit against Rexall Sundown Inc., for weight-loss product Cellasene and a $12 million suit against the now-defunct Dr. Phil-endorsed Shape Up! diet supplements.

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Healthy Christmas Gift Ideas!

It’s the holiday season once again!

We know you are as busy as the next person and shopping for the perfect gift can be time consuming, frustrating, and expensive!

This year, we are offering you a simple HEALTHY solution. One stop shopping for a gift that won’t get put on a shelf or in the back of a closet, but will actually improve a loved ones life! We are currently running a special on the purchase of multiple bottles of our new Black Salve Bloodroot Capsules as well as our Ellagic Insurance Formula.

For our Christmas Package, we have put together some of our best products to enhance your health and beauty at a very enticing price. If you order now, you will receive:

1 - 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Health (416 page book)

1 - Nano B12 Energy Booster

1 - Super Clean Shampoo (8 oz.)

1 - After Care Salve

These four items are regularly sold for $104.80 when combined but during our special Christmas sale you will get all four items for just $79. That is a savings of over $25!

Did you know that if you order the book “101 Great Ways to Improve your Health,” from Amazon.com or Barnes and Nobles that you will miss out on over $1,200 in additional Bonus Gifts?! These free bonuses, which will also improve your health, are included in the purchase of our Christmas Package. This book alone is a great gift for anyone wanting to give the gift of health!

This incredibly useful guidebook, which comes packed with 101 of the most effective ways to improve your health, focuses on a total of nine expansive topic areas. It includes a wealth of important information on holistic remedies, natural cure-alls, hidden health dangers that you might not necessarily be aware of, methods to skyrocket your health through self-improvement techniques, and much more!

Next up in the Christmas Package is our exclusive Nano B12 Energy Booster.

When the holidays or your normal day to day stresses drain your energy, give yourself a lift with this essential vitamin in a revolutionary new delivery system! Our Nano B12 supplement comes in a delicious mint spray, so you don’t even need a glass of water to take it!

Our Nano B12 delivers the highest quality ingredients that are all natural and are free of: synthetics, sugar, binders, fillers, wax, shellac, talcum, and animal gelatin found in tablets and capsules. Appropriate supplementation with vitamin B 12 as seen in clinical studies conducted at major institutions around the U.S., had improvements in the following areas:

Pernicious Anemia

Chronic fatigue syndrome

Impaired cognitive mental function

Asthma

Immune deficiencies

Now, for the cleanest and softest hair you have ever experienced, we have included our "Super Clean Shampoo!" As always, made from the Earth's best products, this shampoo contains no damaging Laurel/Laureth Sulfates.

90% of all commercial soap shampoos use a detergent called sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS) or sodium laureth sulfate (SLES) and/or sodium laurel sulfate (SLS) that can be retained in tissues up to 5 days even after a single drop. SLS is used in testing labs as the standard ingredient to irritate skin. Industrial uses of SLS include garage floor cleaners, engine degreasers, and car wash soaps just to name a few. Studies show its danger potential to be great when used in personal-care products. One study indicates that SLS is systemic, and can penetrate and be retrained in the eye, brain, heart, liver etc., with potentially harmful long-term effects. It could retard healing, cause cataracts in adults, and can keep children's eyes from developing properly.

Not only will our Super Clean Shampoo effectively and gently cleanse your hair, it has been shown to be effective in healing the scalp from many known irritations such as Eczema, Psoriasis, and Seborrheic Dermatitis.

Last but certainly not least we have included, what no medicine cabinet should be without, our After Care Salve. Designed for use after a scab has formed, this salve will keep it soft and moist, allowing for the most effective and quick healing process. This salve actually melts on body contact, and can also be used on minor cuts, scrapes, and burns, as well as a lip balm. 100% natural, the After Care Salve is made from soy bean oil, olive fruit oil, calendula flower extract, comfrey extract, plantago major, chaparral extract, shea butter fruit, lavender oil, tea tree leaf oil, vitamin E.

So what are you waiting for? Give the gift that keeps on giving this holiday season to a loved one that will thank you again and again!

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Black Salve Bloodroot Capsules

First, I want to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! Remember that there are many healthy choices you can make during the holiday eating season, so try to stay on track and avoid the sugar laden foods!

I also wanted to bring to your attention a new product that just became available this week. "Black Salve Bloodroot Capsules," a new product which combines 4 of the strongest immune boosting herbs available! Historically, people have been taking these herbs in a salve form for external application to get rid of moles, warts, and skin tags, as well as fight skin cancers. Other reports speak of using these herbs for fighting fungal infection, chronic bacterial, and viral infections. For more information click here.

As we head into the cold and flu season, it's always a good idea to strengthen your immune system as much as possible! Until next time, keep seeking the truth about health!

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

What Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan Must do to Stay Clean and Sober

Both Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears have unsuccessfully gone through three stints in rehab in the past year and the question still remains, “Will they ever be clean and sober for real?”

Harris Stratyner, a psychologist with Caron, a nonprofit addiction treatment organization says, "It is making a mockery of rehabs." Research from Caron shows the relapse rates for addictive diseases range from 50 percent for resumption of heavy use to 90 percent for a brief lapse.

Lohan and Spears have been seen smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee on their first days out of rehab and beyond. Though most people do not view coffee and cigarettes as hard drugs, they do indeed contain very addictive chemicals. So if someone with a chemical addiction continues to give into another chemical craving, will that person ever overcome their problems?

Clinical nutritionist Thomas Von Ohlen, MS, NC does not believe so. “Without a natural cleansing of the body’s major organs like the liver, kidneys, and digestive tract, it is next to impossible to recover fully from chemical addictions,” states Von Ohlen.

Once your cells become congested with these chemicals, your body can no longer process chemicals or nutrients efficiently which leads to further chemical cravings, especially for stimulants. It is imperative to cleanse your whole body in order for your cell chemistry to return to normal. When this is accomplished, your energy levels will be restored and you will no longer have the same cravings for stimulants such as sugar, nicotine, cocaine, caffeine, and alcohol.

Some other symptoms of a toxic body besides drug and alcohol addiction are weight gain, fatigue, acne, rashes, sinus congestion, burning or dry eyes, headaches and memory loss. Von Ohlen suggests using an all organic natural whole body cleanse from www.BestOnEarthProducts.com to ensure an easy and safe removal of toxins from the body.

You don’t have to party like a rock star to be toxic in our society today. Unfortunately, it appears Lohan and Spears along with millions of others will continue to struggle with their addictions if they do not get to the root chemical cause.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

The Cause of Oprah’s Weight Gain Revealed

"My body was turning on me," Oprah states in the October issue of O magazine. The reason she gives for this turn that led to 20 pounds of weight gain is common to millions of Americans, it’s called a slowed metabolism.

Clinical nutritionist Thomas Von Ohlen, MS, NC says, “Yes, metabolism is the overlooked piece of the weight loss puzzle. Most weight loss programs focus in on diet and exercise and completely disregard the most crucial component which is our metabolism. Oprah has stated that her metabolism was slowed down by erratic thyroid gland function, but there are other, more common causes to a sluggish metabolism that health practitioners often fail to address.”

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

The Truth About Your Vitamins Being Made in a Chemical Lab

Would you like to know if your vitamin C is really vitamin C? Real whole food vitamin C has many health benefits to the body, while “synthetics” are a different story.

The best way to tell if a supplement will be absorbed well is by looking at the ingredients on the label. If you see % Daily Value levels over 40% for one serving, than it is a good indication that you are about to ingest synthetic supplements which are not well absorbed and can damage your cells.

Take a look at any standard multi vitamin and you will see % Daily Value levels in the hundreds and even thousands of percentage for certain vitamins. These synthetic man made chemicals are indeed adding to the stress of you liver, kidneys, and GI tract when they are broken down. A standard vitamin C tab which is not vitamin C but ascorbic acid, and only one component of the C complex, may contain 500 mg of vitamin C. If on the label it says it is made from Rose Hip, a food source, you need to be very leery of it.

You see, in order for 500 mg of “whole food” vitamin C to be put into a tablet or capsule, that tablet or capsule would be bigger than a grapefruit! There may be a tiny pinch of rose hip added to a high dose of ascorbic acid but that is not what most consumers think they are getting. By the way, ascorbic acid was never meant to be the source of nutrient in the food. Its purpose is purely anti-oxidant in nature.

What that means is the food was created to carry nutrients to your cells. The anti-oxidants that occur naturally in whole foods were designed to protect the functional vitamins, minerals, bioflavonoids, carotenoids, etc., from oxidative damage.

Let's say that you went to see your doctor and he had your "file" in his office, which is a record of your personal health information, including test results and medical history. All those pieces of paper have important "information" on them. These papers are kept in a "folder" in order to protect the papers from being lost or damaged in any way. If somehow the papers inside were lost, and the doctor had only the remaining folder, of what value would that be?

The anti-oxidant component of foods is there to protect the important nutrient molecules, just as a folder protects the contents of your file. An empty file will not be of any use, just like a synthetic isolate of an anti-oxidant will not be of use if you are trying to prevent a nutrient deficiency.

In other words, 100 times out of 100, if you were to give a patient with scurvy, a nutrient deficiency disease, some synthetic ascorbic acid, which chemical companies call vitamin C, it will not cure the disease.

Without the P factor, J factor, and T factor found in citrus fruits, scurvy will not be abated. Fruits and berries such as goji, pomegranate, blueberry, camu camu, grape, grapefruit, orange, marula, and papaya, to name a few, are good food sources of real vitamin C.

This is why it is essential to get your vitamins and minerals whenever possible from organic whole foods. Hoffmann-La Roche of Switzerland and BASF of Germany, two well known manufacturers of pharmaceutical products, controlled about 75 percent of the $6-billion-a-year global vitamin business. Yes, they supplied the synthetic vitamin isolates, chemically produced in their labs, which were then put into multi-vitamins and formulas and sold as health boosting nutrients to the general public.

They were finally busted in 1999 for price fixing and Roche paid $954 million and BASF more than $500 million after entering guilty pleas with the US Department of Justice, Canada, Australia and the European Union.

Unfortunately, synthetic chemicals in the form of vitamins still make up 95% all the bottles of supplements sold today. Please read labels and ask questions when purchasing supplements and again, try to buyorganic whole food products.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

101 Great Ways to Improve Your Health!

I am so excited to announce the launch of a new book that I co-authored with some of the greatest health professionals of our time!

The book is titled "101 Great Ways to Improve Your Health" and it's a compilation of 101 proven strategies with reliable, tried-and-true ways to become a healthier person.

"101 Great Ways to Improve Your Health" is literally the "Who's Who" of the top health experts in the world. As contributing authors you'll be amazed to find Dr. Joseph Mercola, Gary Craig, Dr. Marcus Laux, Dr. Susan Lark, Dr.Stephen Sinatra, Dr. Julian Whitaker and many other leading health experts.

. . . then now is the time for you to make an investment that will guarantee a hugely beneficial return!

This book taps into the minds of some of the world's very best physicians, doctors, nutritionists and health gurus, creating a practical guide that you can start using to improve your health IMMEDIATELY!

This book can - and will - change your life. From holistic healing to natural supplements, diet and nutrition to improving your health through general self-improvement, this book covers EVERY single aspect of the health arena that you can possibly imagine!

Don't expect to read the same old health tips you see everyday! The experts in this book reveal some of the lesser-known facts about health to ensure you learn everything necessary to make your body, mind, and spirit are as fit as possible.

And because I want to ensure that you are in absolute best health, mentally and physically, I bundled this book with a goldmine of bonus gifts! The combined value of these gifts amounts, literally, to thousands of dollars, but you're getting ALL of them for FREE just by purchasing one copy of our book!

I am so confident you will love it that I am backing it up with a completely solid guarantee.

Go there and take a look for yourself - and make sure you check out the bonuses. I think you'll be astounded at the stuff that I'm GIVING AWAY AT NO COST TO YOU!

PS- One of the free bonuses is my brand new E-book "60 Days to Healthy Weight Loss and Whole Body Cleansing." This bonus alone is regularly valued at $37.00! This E-book is packed full of pertinent health secrets and delicious recipes! Yours free along with 11 other free bonuses for a limited time.

Friday, September 07, 2007

Are you Paying for Poison in your Bottled Water?

How much do you spend a week on bottled water? Clinical nutritionist Thomas Von Ohlen, MS, NC recently stated, “There are so many people who are spending a lot of money for bottled water and they are not aware of the source or purity of that water.” Von Ohlen goes on to say that, “people have the right idea in trying to avoid chlorine and fluoride from their tap water since research has linked the chemicals to cancers. The unfortunate problem is that some of the major manufacturers of bottled water are using the same water that comes from the consumer’s municipal water supply.”

Von Ohlen is referring to recent developments in regulations of the bottled water industry. PepsiCo Inc., makers of Pepsi cola products and Aquafina bottled water has recently agreed to add the words “public water source” to Aquafina labels. Coca-Cola Co., who makes Dasani bottled water, will post online consumer information regarding quality control testing in the next few months. Both companies have been found to use purified water from public reservoirs in their products.

Estimates say the average U.S. household uses 1,500 gallons of drinking water annually. The average gallon of bottled water at the grocery store costs $2. That is an expense of $3,000 a year for water that may be no different in quality than what you can get from your tap. This is a low estimate, as many people pay three to four dollars for a 16-20 ounce bottle of water at convenient stores across the country. Von Ohlen suggests for people to invest in a good quality water filter to be put under the sink where their drinking supply comes from. “It is worth paying a few hundred dollars to get a good filter instead of paying thousands for chlorinated bottle water,” says Von Ohlen.

There are independent clinical studies that indicated certain “functional water” products can be added to filtered water to ensure a higher level of cellular hydration. These studies are some of the newest in the field of water function in the human body. More information can be found through the “functional water” link at the bottom of this article.

Thomas Von Ohlen MS, NC, is a clinical nutritionist and co-author of the book, “101 Great Ways to Improve Your Health.” He is also the developer of Plasma Pro software, a blood test analysis program for doctors. His FREE newsletter and report on weight loss is available at www.healyourbodynow.com

Friday, July 06, 2007

The Truth About Goji, Mangosteen, and Acai Juice!

Hi,

I want to first thank you again for signing up for my free newsletter at HealYourBodyNow.com.This shows that you are a real seeker of the TRUTH about health!It is not easy to do what it takes to ensure health these days, but you are making the effort and that is awesome!Because of your efforts, I want to reward you with a very special offer to bring your health to another level.

If you want to strengthen your immune system and digestion with the highest quality, 100% natural, organic whole food supplement at wholesale cost, keep reading!

I have been studying health and nutrition for 20 years now, and every year there are reported “amazing new findings” in the field.What I would like to talk to you about today is the fact that there are actually very few “new” findings in the field.Almost all the new nutritional products, (that are being hyped through Multi-level Marketing (MLM) companies) contain nutrients that have been used in their native lands for centuries!

Here is a brief summary of the process:

A marketing company hires a researcher to find a product that has not been sold yet to the masses.Once they put the product together, they hype a MLM distribution program for people to make lots of money in bonuses if they become distributors and sell their product.

While many of these products are very good, they are extremely over priced!

They are over priced so that the MLM companies can pay bonuses to their distributors.These bonus payments to distributors are actually less than what the MLM companies would have spent to advertise their products through expensive TV, newspaper, Internet and magazine ad campaigns.

Now, through the years I have been contacted by literally hundreds of distributors who had hoped to sign me up to sell their nutritional products through my clinic and/or website.This would lend a lot of credibility to them by having another knowledgeable health professional endorse their product.I feel that, while some of these products are good, it would take away from MY credibility with my patients if I sold a MLM product to them.

So I remained frustrated that I could not provide some of these products directly for my patients who just wanted the quality product.They wanted to pay a lower cost which was offered to distributors but didn’t want to have to sell these products.

Well, I finally have a solution.Through a business relationship with another company, I have secured a wholesale price for an awesome product!What that means is, instead of having to sign up to be a distributor, you will be able to order this product, with no strings attached, for even less than what the distributors are paying!

This special product has a suggest retail cost of $69 and even the distributors pay $50 for it.Because I believe in this product formulation and do not have to become a distributor myself to get it for you, I am going to make this product available to you for only $42!!!!By the way, this product is all organic!

I could charge the same price as distributors charge (retail) but that would stop a lot of people from purchasing it, who really need it!So, you’re welcome ;)

OK, I am sure that by now you are wondering what this product is!Well, first, let me ask you if you have heard of any of the following, super anti-oxidant, nutritional mega fruits which are being sold individually in a liquid juice form?:

Mangosteen (Pericarp) , Tart Cherry,

Goji (Wolfberry) , Elderberry,

Acai , Raspberry,

Pomegranate , Blueberry,

Cha De Burge , Concord Grape,

Strawberry , Niagara Grape,

Muscadine Grape , Cranberry,

Grapefruit , Pear

The product I am making available to you has ALL of these fruits and their amazing health benefits, plus:

Plant Enzymes: Enzymes are fundamental to all living processes in the body, necessary for every chemical reaction and the normal activity of our organs, tissues, fluids, and cells. There are hundreds of thousands of these "workers of Nature." All the vitamins, minerals, and hormones we rely on, need enzymes to work. Enzymes move our muscles, stimulate our nerves, make our heart beat, and keep us breathing. Enzymes are specialized living proteins that enable your body to digest and assimilate proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and plant fibers.

Probiotic Complex: This complex is made up of literally hundreds of different "friendly" bacteria.Of all the considerations one might embrace for obtaining ultimate health, incorporating healthy intestinal micro-flora is the most overlooked; yet, so essential that it overshadows the ultimate benefits of all the other principles combined, for the body will simply not reach maximum health without its full complement of microbiology.The primary purpose of adding this complex to SenSatiaFruit, was to naturally preserve the other ingredients.

Taurine: a key ingredient of bile, which in turn is needed for fat digestion, absorption of fat-soluble vitamins as well as the control of cholesterol serum levels in the body. (It is incorporated in the bile acid chenodeoxychloic acid, which emulsify the dietary fats) This nutrient is also used in the proper use of potassium, calcium as well as sodium in the body, and for maintaining cell membrane integrity. It is thought to be helpful with anxiety, hyperactivity, poor brain function and epilepsy as well as hydrating the brain. Taurine, together with zinc is also required for proper eye health and vision.

Sugarcane: A tropical grass native to Asia.The organic cane juice crystal powder used in SenSatiaFruit comes from fields of organically raised sugar cane.No chemical herbicides, pesticides or fertilizers are used in the production of the crop of sugar cane.These crystals are a much healthier alternative to refined sugar as while both sweeteners are made from sugar cane, evaporated cane juice does not undergo the same degree of processing that refined sugar does. Unlike refined sugar, cane juice crystals retain most of the natural vitamins, minerals and other nutrients found in sugar cane.We think the concept is pretty simple - sweeteners should come from a field, not a laboratory.

So, what is the name of this product I am talking about?

SenSatiaFruit!

SenSatiaFruit™ is the one product that all of the networking fruit juice companies have feared would come into the market.

SenSatiaFruit™ is a patent pending all natural product, produced with a revolutionary new, low impact, liquid extraction technology. This cutting edge Technology preserves all the goodness of the natural ripe fruit, without any of the negative effects of current extraction or concentration technologies.

SenSatiaFruit™ contains No Fillers, No Preservatives, No Synthetic Chemicals, No Pasteurized Ingredients...Nothing Artificial.

A single bottle of SenSatiaFruit™ contains the active nutrients found in multiple bottles of the top selling existing juices, Mangosteen, Acai, Goji, Pomegranate, and Raspberry.

A single bottle of SenSatiaFruit™ also contains the active nutrients found in eleven other highly beneficial fruit juices.

A single bottle of SenSatiaFruit™ also contains a full spectrum of plant based natural vitamins.

A single bottle of SenSatiaFruit™ also contains water soluble plant based ionic minerals.

A single bottle of SenSatiaFruit™ also contains fulvic acids.

A single bottle of SenSatiaFruit™ also contains AlliSURE, the only patented Allicin extract from garlic available that is known to actually deliver a 100% Allicin yield.

A single bottle of SenSatiaFruit™ also containsover one hundred strains of a natural probiotic.

Each bottle of SenSatiaFruit™ contains more active ingredients than you would pay more than $600.00 to obtain from multiple bottles of other companies overpriced products.

While we are not going into all the technical production and ingredient details at this time, here is a brief overview of why SenSatiaFruit™ is such a unique product.

For many years companies promoting their liquid juice products have claimed that these liquids are more bioavailable than tablet or encapsulated juice products.

They have made fortunes bombarding Networkers with information, that unless the product is in a liquid form the body simply cannot assimilate and use the nutrients it contains.

While this "Liquids" claim appears, on the surface to be accurate, it can also be a total lie.

Yes, if the juice is spray dried and then processed into a tablet or caplet, it will be extremely difficult for the body to assimilate and use the nutrients. This non-assimilation has nothing to do with the juice powder. It is caused by the fact that these tablets are pressure produced using what are known as binders and fillers that are required to stop the tablet from crumbling in the bottle. Then just to make sure that the body has further problems digesting the tablet, they are generally coated with another binder, such as shellac, to protect them from moisture and make them easier to swallow.

So, when discussing tablets or caplets, the claim regarding non-bioavailability can be totally true.

Juice powder capsules are, on the other hand, a totally different matter. If it were possible to put enough powdered juice into a vegetarian capsule to be effective, that product would be much more bioavailable than a tablet. One major problem with fruit powder capsules is that the powder needs to be mixed with anti-caking and flowing agents to stop it from clogging the encapsulating machinery. Metallic Stearate and Maltodextrin are the two most common substances used for this purpose.

The biggest problem with encapsulating juice powders, however, is the bulkiness of the material. Unless you are making a capsule designed to be swallowed by an elephant, you are not going to get a therapeutic dose in a single capsule. The upper weight limit in a capsule for a human is around 750mg.

Put into perspective, this means that if the daily recommended dosage for a product is 25 grams, you would need to swallow 33 capsules per day.

Most of the companies promoting liquid products bombard the marketplace with information that their liquid juices are the only way to get the vital nutrients contained in the juice.

What they do not promote, however, are the negatives that can be associated with juices, as to do so might cost them business...a lot of business.

Here are just a few of the liquid juice facts that are not promoted.

1)The largest single ingredient in all liquid juice products is water. If you take the average 32 ounce juice product and remove all of the water, you would have less than 1 ounce of material remaining.

Let’s face it; knowledgeable consumers are not interested in paying $40-$70 for 1 ounce of fruit.

2) 100% pure juice is a claim that is often used to promote liquid juice products, and while it is a legal claim under the existing labeling laws it can also be very misleading. Shipping pure juice into the US from overseas is a very expensive proposition, so it is much more cost effective to dehydrate the juice overseas and then ship the powder to the US.

Then the powder is remixed with water and still able to be legally labeled as 100% pure juice.

3) Another widely used 100% pure juice trick is the practice of labeling and promoting a product in such a way that the consumer is led to believe that the product only contains the juice being promoted. They will call the product "XXXX" juice, and promote the wonders of that juice knowing that the average consumer is not going to either read or fully understand the supplemental facts panel on the product label which discloses that the product actually also contains many other much less expensive juices.

This is legal under the existing labeling laws, even if the main ingredient actually only makes up 15% of the total juice content.

4) Most liquid juice products are required to be pasteurized to remove harmful pathogens. Pasteurization is a heat treatment, at temperatures generally between 120-170 degrees Fahrenheit. That not only kills pathogens it also kills the Enzymes and can damage many other of the naturally occurring nutrients present in the raw fruit.

5) Liquid juice products generally have chemical preservatives. Some of these preservatives can form carcinogenic chemicals.

6) Many liquid juice products have a natural taste, which to put it politely, is less than desirable, so many different sweeteners are added to disguise the taste.

As you can see, the liquid juice product networking companies have sold billions of dollars worth of products by carefully concentrating on the benefits of their liquid concoctions. They have also chosen to simply ignore the negatives associated with liquid juice products.

Please do not think that we are saying that liquid juice products are not beneficial. There are many liquid juice products being sold today that are producing some phenomenal results.

However,

A new processing technology has now made those products obsolete...and SenSatiaFruit™ is the replacement.

Here is why!

What if it were possible to take a fruit, any fruit, and process that fruit in such a way that you could remove the water without destroying the natural nutrient content of that fruit?

This amazing proven Patent Pending technology retains the vitamins, minerals and enzymes found in the ripe fruit in their natural bio-available state!

What if the resulting material could then be bottled and shipped dry?

No more inflated shipping costs to send water across the country!

What if ONE daily dose of SenSatiaFruit™, provided as many active ingredients as a whole bottle of some of the currently available juice products?

Buy one bottle of SenSatiaFruit™, or buy thirty bottles of other products to get the same amount of benefit!

So now that you have all the facts, I hope you will enjoy this great organic whole food product that will enhance your health at an amazing low price J

Friday, June 01, 2007

Cancer Linked to Obesity

Here is some more great incentive to get the fat off! Being overweight accounts for up to a third of all cases of cancer, but most of the U.S. public does not realize this, a June 2002 survey shows. Only 25 percent of more than 1,000 adults surveyed knew that obesity is associated with a higher risk of colon, breast and perhaps other cancers, according to the American Institute of Cancer Research, which funds study into the links between diet, exercise and cancer.

The Harris poll showed that most adults -- nearly 90 percent -- know that being obese can lead to diabetes and heart disease. But it showed they remain ignorant about other factors, with just 18 percent knowing that a high-fat diet is associated with cancer. With 61 percent of the American population now classified as being overweight, and more than 25 percent obese, this could mean a steady increase in the cancer rate in years to come, Phil James, chairman of the International Obesity Task Force, told a news conference. "If we don't do something about it soon, we are going to be in terrible trouble," James said.

"If we lost weight, the nation's health would improve and we would have less cancer," Dr. George Bray of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University said. "Thirty to 40 percent of all cancers could be prevented by eating a better diet and getting more exercise." He said cancers of the breast, colon, uterus, prostate and gallbladder all are associated with obesity.

The AICR advocates eating a diet based on vegetables, fruit and whole grains, and getting at least 30 minutes of exercise five days a week to reduce the risk of cancer. Sound familiar ? :)

Saturday, February 03, 2007

What's In Our Red Meat?

Folks, our goal here at HealYourBodyNow.com is to give you all the information you need to be healthy. Sometimes that information is shocking, going against what we have been told our entire lives. We challenge you to ask yourself this question: If we are doing what we have been told and we are NOT HEALTHY, is it possible that we were not told the truth? The following information will put things into a different perspective from what most of us are aware of.

In order to restore our normal metabolism and maintain our body weight we first need to eliminate certain foods that lead to a sluggish metabolism! As you will soon learn in the words below, red meat is a major contributor to a number of diseases, many of which are attributed to the high amount of FAT found in red meat. But first, here are some quotes from doctors who have a strong opinion on the effects of red meat in our diets.

"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital." -- NEAL. D. BARNARD, M.D., President, Physicians Committeefor Responsible Medicine. Washington, D.C.

"If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero."-- WALTER WILLETT, M.D., of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Director of a study that found a close correlation between red meat consumption and colon cancer.

That being said, lets explore the evidence!

Many scientific studies have found a high correlation between the consumption of red meat-- which is high in saturated fats and cholesterol -- and heart disease, stroke, and colon and breast cancer.George A Bray, "Overweight is Risking Fate..." in Richard J. Wurtman and Judith Wunman, eds. Human Obesity, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ,(1987). 21Gina Kolata, "Animal Fat is Tied To Colon Cancer," New York Times, December 13, 1990Waiter Willett et al.. "Relationship of Meat, Fat, and Fiber Intake to the Risk of Colon Cancer in Prospective Study Among Women," New England Journal of Medicine, 333:24 (1990), 1663J. Raloff, "Breast Cancer Rise: Due to Dietary Fat?" Science News, April 21, 1(1)90. Geoffrey Howe et al.. "A Conort Study of Fat Intake and the Risk of Breast Cancer." Journal of National Cancer Institute, 85:5 (March 6, 1991).

In 1990, the largest study ever done on the health effects of consuming animal derived foods confirmed the results of previous studies showing a high correlation between meat consumption and the incidence of heart disease and cancer. Participating researchers followed the eating habits of 6,500 people living in 25 provinces in China.Jane E. Brody, ''Huge Study of Diet Indicts Fat and Meat," New York Times, May 8, 1990, C1

The Chinese study found that Chinese consume 20 percent more calories than Americans, but that Americans are 25 percent fatter. That's because 37 percent of the calories in the U.S. diet comes from fat, whereas less than 15 percent of the calories in the rural Chinese diet comes from fat. The study also found that 70 percent of the protein in the Western diet comes from animal sources and 30 percent from plants. In China, only 11 percent comes from animal products and 89 percent from plants.Nanci Hellmich, "In Healthful Living. East Beats West," USA Today, June 6, 1990; Anne Simon Moffat, "China: A Living Lab for Epidemology," Science 248, May 4, 1990. 554

Each year, the death toll continues to mount for consumers of beef and other red meats. According to a report by the U.S. Surgeon General, more than 70 percent of deaths in this country -- more than 1.5 million annually -- are related to diet, particularly the over- consumption of beef and other foods high in cholesterol and saturated fat. Study after study confirms that consumption of red meat is a primary factor in the development of heart disease, strokes, and colon and breast cancer. The American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Pediatrics all recommend that people reduce their consumption of red meat and other animal-derived foods, and eat more grain, fresh vegetables, and fruits instead.

What else is going into the beef that slows our metabolism and weakens our immune systems?

More than 95 percent of all feedlot- raised cattle in the United States are currently receiving growth-promoting hormones and other pharmaceuticals, residues of which may be present in finished cuts of beef.Fred Kuchler et al. "Regulating Food Safety: The Case of Animal Growth Hormones," National Food Review July-December 1989, 26

In order to speed weight gain, feedlot managers administer growth-stimulating hormones and feed additives. Anabolic steroids, in the form of small time-release pellets, are implanted in the animals' ears. The hormones slowly seep into the bloodstream, increasing hormone levels by two to five times. Cattle are given estradiol, testosterone, and progesterone.Jim Mason and Peter Singer, Animal Factories (New York. NY: HarmonyÂ· Books, 1990), 51;Jeannine Kenney and Dick Fallert, "Livestock Hormone in the United States," National Food Review, July-September 1989, 22-23.

In 1988, more than 15 million pounds of antibiotics were used as feed additives for livestock in the United States. The drugs were used to promote growth and fight the disease which run rampant in cramped, contaminated pens and feedlots. Antibiotic residues often show up in the meat people consume, making the human population increasingly vulnerable to more virulent strains of disease-causing bacteria.Mason and Singer, Animal Factories, 70, 83-84; FDA Veterinarian, ''Antibiotics in Animal Feeds Risk Assessment," May/June 1989

In addition to antibiotics, US cattle are fed synthetic hormones to accelerate growth, increase fat deposits, bring entire herds of cows into heat at the same time for breeding, increase milk production, and induce abortions in pregnant cows scheduled for slaughter.

These hormones are suspected as a major cause of the high incidence of breast and ovarian cancer in American women, as well as premature puberty in American children.

Since steroid hormone's cause cattle to grow fat fast, it also stands to reason that they cause obesity in humans who consume the meat and milk of such contaminated animals.

This is especially true for growing children, and is confirmed by the fact that whenever big American fast-food chains featuring beef and milk products set up operations in Asian countries, the once healthy children there soon show all the signs of chronic ill health that plague American children: obesity, acne and pimples, respiratory infections, premature puberty, and behavioral abnormalities.

More chemicals

Beef contains the highest concentration of herbicides of any food sold in America, according to the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences. Eighty percent of all the herbicides used in the U.S. are sprayed on corn and soybeans, which are used primarily as feed for cattle. When consumed by cattle, the chemicals accumulate in their bodies and are passed onto consumers in finished cuts of beef.National Research Council, Board on Agriculture, Alternative Agriculture, 44;National Research Council, Board on Agriculture, Regulating Pesticides in Food, 78. Table 3-20 to 22

US cattle also absorb all the herbicides, pesticides, and chemical fertilizers used to grow the feed crops on which they are forced to gorge, and a high percentage of these hapless creatures arrive at the slaughterhouse riddled with cancerous tumors and tuberculosis.

Many pesticides approved for use by the EPA were registered long before extensive research linking these chemicals to cancer and other diseases had been established. Now the EPA considers that 60 percent of all herbicides, 90 percent of fungicides and 30 percent of all insecticides are carcinogenic.

A 1987 National Academy of Sciences report estimated that pesticides might cause an extra 1.4 million cancer cases among Americans. The bottom line is that pesticides are poisons designed to kill living organisms and can also be harmful to you. In addition to cancer, pesticides are implicated in birth defects, nerve damage and genetic mutation.J Am Vet Med Assoc 1996 Aug 1;209(3):589-93Related Articles, Books, LinkOut Patterns of chemical residues detected in US beef carcasses between 1991 and 1993.Gibbons SN, Kaneene JB, Lloyd JW. Population Medicine Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing 48824, USA.

Currently there are in excess of 1,000 drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) being used by livestock producers. Two thirds of all animal drugs and implants sold in the U.S. each year are made up of feed additives and implants.Ensminger, M.E., Oldfield, J.E., Heinemann, W.W., 1990. Feeds & Nutrition, 2nd Ed.pp. Clovis, CA. The Ensminger Publishing Company. Pp. 262-263, pp. 502-517.Jergens, Marshal H., 1993. Animal Feeding & Nutrition, 8th Ed, Dubuque Iowa , Kendall / Hunt Publishing Company pp. 291-302.

OK, so now that you have the TRUE facts,is beef still what's for dinner????

Sunday, January 28, 2007

How to get rid of warts, moles, and skin tags naturally and effectively in five simple steps

Are you interested in getting rid of moles, warts, or skin tags without cutting, burning or using toxic chemicals which are ineffective?I am going to share with you, what I have found to be in my fifteen years of practice, the number one, safe, natural, and effective solution to these skin problems.

These steps have helped thousands of people who had previously tried and failed to get rid of their ailment with the typical medical treatments.A link to a site with testimonials of some of these people as well as a link to a source for the best product to use can be found in the following step.So let’s get started!

Step 1 “Get it checked out”

As with any ailment or disorder in the body, it is very important to have a trained health care professional assess your specific problem.Have them first verify that your skin growth is benign.

Step 2 “get bloodroot salve”

Once you are certain that it is not a malignant skin growth, you need to get an herbal compound called “bloodroot salve”.The world renowned MD, Dr Andrew Weil says this about bloodroot;

“…one alternative to these procedures that I can suggest is using bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), a small woodland herb that grows in the north central United States and Canada. The red juice from the root is poisonous when taken internally, but used externally has a unique ability to dissolve abnormal growth without disturbing normal tissue.”

Using a Q-tip or your pinky finger, apply enough bloodroot to cover the

Wart, mole, or skin tag you want to get rid of. Once the spot is well covered, apply a bandage over it so that the bloodroot is not wiped off.

Step 4 “check the area and re-apply if needed”

Every two days, remove the bandage, apply fresh bloodroot, and put a new

bandage on. This will ensure that there is a sufficient concentration of the

Bloodroot working on the spot.

Step 5 “repeat process until it’s gone”

Repeat this two day cycle until the wart, mole, or skin tag has receded to the same level as the surrounding skin.Typically you will see results within the first week, and rarely does it take greater than a month for the entire process to be completed.To read what others have experienced using bloodroot, go to www.blacksalveinfo.com and click on the link in the left column that says “Moles, warts, and skin tag Testimonials”.

This 5 step solution will save you a lot of time, money, and aggravation, so start today and rid yourself of those annoying and unsightly growths!

About the author

Thomas Von Ohlen, MS is a clinical nutritionist and developer of Plasma Pro software for doctors. After suffering for many years as a child and young adult with his own health ailments, he dedicated all his time to finding the truth about health. Today he continues that same dedication to helping others who are sick and tired of being sick and tired. In his 15 years in private practice he has helped thousands of people, from all over the world achieve their health goals through education and specific product recommendations. His FREE newsletter is available at http://www.healyourbodynow.com

Monday, November 06, 2006

Top 10 Muscle Mass Gaining Tips

With 65% of American’s clinically obese, it is not surprising to see multitudes on diets, trying to lose weight.There are however, some people who have struggled to put weight on.Typically, these people have a higher than average metabolism or expend a lot of calories in their day to day life.A few years ago I had a young lady in her early 20’s come into my office with a couple of health challenges.The first and most important was her low body weight.She had always been thin but seemed to have lost even more weight after a bout with the flu and could not put it the weight back on.At 5”5’ she weighed in at well under 100 pounds.After visiting her doctor who told her to eat a lot of McDonald’s fast food to put on weight, she was recommended by a friend to my office.We went right to work and after some specific testing to locate causative factors to her weight problem I was able to determine a few key weaknesses.

Like so many American’s, this young lady suffered from tired adrenal glands which were interfering with her metabolism.As a result of the adrenal fatigue, her body was not able to produce normal digestive enzymes to help in the break down, absorption, and utilization of her food.This deficiency also contributed to her weak immune system and subsequent chronic infections.Once we started her on some specific nutrient formulas to help her adrenal glands, digestive system, as well as her immune system, we saw a huge turn around.She no longer suffers from chronic colds and was able to break the 100 pound mark for the first time in her life in a relatively short period of time!I use this young lady as an example of some of us who can not seem to put on healthy muscle mass.

About a year ago I went through some major life changes.I actually moved 1,300 miles from the area I grew up in.I started a new business venture and was away from most of my family and friends.This put a large amount of stress on me which started to take a toll on my physical body, as well as my mental health.During times of mental and physical stress your metabolism speeds up.I have always had a fast metabolism and if I am not working out regularly and eating calorie dense foods, that fast metabolism tends to lead to a catabolization of my muscle mass.I lost close to 15 pounds and was getting very frustrated.I want to share with you some tips I used to put on 17 pounds of muscle mass in just 60 days!If you are struggling to put on weight, especially muscle mass, then you will want to pay close attention to the following tips.

1) From the moment you are born your body begins to go through stress which affects your metabolism, so make sure you get on a good adrenal gland supplement to bring your adrenals and metabolism back to optimum function.

2)If you are not taking a digestive enzyme, you will not make the muscle mass gains you are looking for.If you can’t break down the food, how do you expect to utilize the protein and other nutrients needed for building muscle?

3)

You must eat small meals every 3 hours that you are awake. In order to keep your metabolism from eating away at your muscle, orcatabolising muscle to produce energy, you need to feed your metabolism enough calories.This is the most important part of the program!

5)You should eat a minimum of 0.8 grams of protein per pound of body weight.

6)Use a quality protein powder.It is often hard to take in the necessary amount of protein calories unless you are adding protein powder to your diet.There are only a few good whey protein powders on the market that are not overly heat processed, which destroys their biochemical integrity.

7)Eat a high protein meal as soon as you wake up.During sleep, your cortisol level raises which causes muscle catabolism.Protein will stop that catabolism!

8)Eat a protein at every meal.Protein intake will also ensure low insulin levels during the day and help avoid the storage of fat.

9)You can not build muscle if you are not pushing the muscles you have!In the gym, you should focus on heavy weights at low repetitions.Without breaking down muscle tissue through weight training, it will not be rebuilt with more mass.

10)Rest!Physical and mental stress need to be kept to a minimum. Your muscles can not grow if you don’t rest them after work outs.Make sure you never work the same muscle group 2 days in a row and always try to get 8 hours of sleep.Remember, it is the recovery time that allows the muscle to grow.

These tips will help you achieve your muscle gaining goals, but it will take dedication and hard work.If you are looking for a complete step by step process of workouts and meal plans tailored just for you, take a look at the successful program I personally used for gaining 17 pounds of muscle mass, safely, in just 60 days!

Thomas Von Ohlen is a clinical nutritionist and developer of Plasma Pro software for doctors. In his 15 years in private practice he has helped thousands of people, from all over the world, achieve their health goals through education and product recommendations. His FREE newsletter is available at www.healyourbodynow.com

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

MD's cancer cure book from 1948

View an MD's book from 1948, cured thousands of cancer using salves!

Check the link on the left side of www.blacksalveinfo.com for some incredible research that was conducted over 50 years by an MD who cured thousands of people of cancer with salves. Not just skin cancer, but bone cancer, breast cancer, lung, and liver cancer as well. When you view the actual book online they will use the word "escharotics" which are salves. Also, there is more evidence that the cancers come from a yeast as the book states: Escharotics....which will destroy any living or "fungus growth" in the treatment of cancer, lupus, sarcoma or any other forms of malignancy.

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Black Salve, the natural treatment for skin cancer.

Have you heard that there is an herbal compound called Black Salve, touted as a natural cure for skin cancer?I first heard about this compound 8 years ago but it has been around for a very long time.We will get to more of that in a moment, but first, did you know that there is an epidemic of skin cancer in the US?

“The United States is in the midst of a of skin cancer epidemic, according to a report in from theMayo Clinic.The report goes on to state, “One in five Americans will develop skin cancer, and a person's risk of the diseasedoubles if that person has had five or more sunburns, according to the Mayo statistics.Basal and squamous cell carcinomas, the most common and treatable types of skin cancers, had long been considered a problem only for people over 50, according to the report. But Mayo researchers report that percentage of women under 40 with the more common type, basal cell, tripled between 1976 and 2003, while the rate of squamous cell cancers increased 400 percent.”

The standard procedure for skin cancer treatment in US hospitals is surgery, chemotherapy, and even radiation, with no significant cure rate!Getting back to black salve, while there are many variations of this herbal compound, the man who first spread the word about and healing from black salve was a man named Harry Hoxsey, founder of the "Hoxsey Method". Hoxsey is the great-grandson of John Hoxsey, an American physician who discovered a remarkably effective cancer cure in 1840 after watching horses with cancer cure themselves by grazing on specific herbs they instinctually searched out.

Harry Hoxsey had no formal medical training, but began promoting his great-grandfather's original cancer formula which contained the herbs, bloodroot, burdock, red clover, pokeroot, barberry root, buckthorn, prickly ash, stillingia root and cascara. This black salve formulation was stunningly effective on cancer, and it wasn’t long before word of his cancer treatments spread across the US.Along with his success came the scrutiny of the FDA and Big Pharma who saw his cure rate as a huge threat to their personal financial interests.Though Hoxsey never claimed to be a doctor, he was arrested hundreds of times, mostly for practicing medicine without a license!

Just a few years ago, another man names Greg Caton developed a similar product, sold it on the internet, and before to long was also arrested.One of his employees described the situation as follows, “Yes, Greg was forced/railroaded into pleading guilty for defrauding customers (something even the judge could clearly see that Greg did not want to plea to since he NEVER defrauded ANYONE). But - I guess the threat of arresting your wife, sending your son to foster care and arresting 3 employees as accomplices in the so called "conspiracy to defraud" could drive a person to admit to just about anything.

The FDA NEVER ordered us to stop selling anything...we NEVER got a warning letter, a phone call, anything. We were simply raided on September 17th, 2003 at 9:10 am like crack-cocaine dealers. They came in guns drawn (some on full body armor) and demanded that everyone get on the floor (I along with 2 other employees refused). They can not and did not order us to stop selling the products, the only thing they can demand is that our products have no claims, what-so-ever. However, the products were stolen from us by the FDA, therefore we have no products to sell.”

There was never a validated complaint to the FDA about any of the variations of the formula sold under any name to this date!This article was written for the purpose ofeducating “you the people” about the TRUTH regarding health care choices!Do your own research and you will find a wealth of valid research information on the topic of herbal and other natural remedies for cancer and other major diseases.Until next time, keep searching for the truth!

Thomas Von Ohlen, MS is a clinical nutritionist and developer of Plasma Pro software for doctors. In his 15 years in private practice he has helped thousands of people, from all over the world, achieve their health goals through education and product recommendations. His favorite holistic cancer information site is http://www.blacksalveinfo.com

Monday, September 25, 2006

Mediterranean Diet for Arthritis

A Swedish study suggests the "Mediterranean diet," already believed to help prevent heart disease and some forms of cancer, may also reduce the pain and swelling of joints stricken with rheumatoid arthritis. Significant improvement was reported by most of the 26 arthritic patients who followed the well-studied dietary regimen for three months. The Mediterranean diet includes olive oil as the primary dietary sources of fat, along with plenty of fish, poultry, produce, and legumes, say Swedish researchers. By comparison, no relief was reported by another group of 25 patients who followed a typical Western diet.

Their finding, published in the March 2003 issue of Annals of Rheumatic Diseases, is the latest to suggest arthritis relief may result from this eating plan, which is typical on Crete and other Greek islands. Just over five years ago, University of Buffalo researchers found that mice fed high doses of fish oil and vitamin E, abundant in the two oils studied by the Swedish investigators. The results were reduced levels of a specific protein that causes joint swelling and pain. Just a few months earlier, Greek investigators found that a similar Mediterranean diet reduced the onset of rheumatoid arthritis by nearly three-fold compared with those who ate less olive oil and fewer fruits and vegetables.

In addition to being good sources of heart-healthy fats, olive oil is rich in oleic acid and vitamin E. Like vitamin E, oleic acid has an anti-inflammatory effect and is thought to reduce inflammatory protein levels. The fish eaten by these study participants didn't have the same high levels of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids found in cold-water fish such as salmon, mackerel, and others associated with a reduced risk of heart disease and other conditions. The nutrients in these oils may have a similar anti-inflammatory effect. Like produce, they're also good sources of other antioxidant phytochemicals believed to reduce inflammation and inhibit tissue damage.

"The results of this intervention program indicate that a Cretan Mediterranean diet suppresses disease activity in patients who have stable and modestly active rheumatoid arthritis," write the researchers. "Thus, by eating a Mediterranean diet for three months, patients with RA can obtain better physical function and increase their activity." What more needs to be said if you want to achieve relief from inflammation without medications?

Monday, August 07, 2006

Weight Gain Epidemic

I know we have talked about weight control and obesity in thepast. It is a SERIOUS problem in our country today. In fact,we are the most obese nation, in the history of the world!

Just today a friend mentioned to me that he saw a newscast lastnight that was trying to blame obesity on the environment. Thatair quality was the cause of this epidemic. OK, I agree thatpollution may contribute many diseases, but "the cause" ofobesity, I have a big problem with that.

First, I want to promote a movie that came out 2 years ago,its called "Super-size Me" and if you have not seen it yet,you need to right away! As a matter of fact, the info in thismovie may just save you or a loved ones life. I own the DVDand I can honestly say that it is on my top 5 movies of alltime, because it is full of the TRUTH, and, as disturbing asmuch of it is, there are some absolutely funny parts as well.

The second thing I want to direct you to today is a site thatwill show you the dramatic increase in obesity in the U.S. inthe last 20 years, by state, which has been recorded by theCDC (Center for Disease Control) Please visit the followinglink to see how quickly we became the most obese country inthe history of the world!

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Organic Foods

In your quest for health I am sure by now you have heard of organic foods.There are many different ways to define “organic”.As of October, 2002, the USDA has implemented a certification for all organic foods, which Wikipedia defines as the following:

“Organic certification is a certification process for producers of organic food and other organic agricultural products. In general, any business directly involved in food production can be certified, including seed suppliers, farmers, food processors, retailers and restaurants. Requirements vary from country to country, and generally involve a set of production standards for growing, storage, processing, packaging and shipping that include:

Certified organic producers are also subject to the same agricultural, food safety and other government regulations that apply to non-certified producer.Being able to put the word "organic" on a food product is a valuable marketing advantage in today's consumer market. Certification is intended to protect consumers from misuse of the term, and make buying organics easy. However, the organic labeling made possible by certification itself usually requires explanation.

In the US, federal organic legislation defines three levels of organics. Products made entirely with certified organic ingredients and methods can be labeled "100% organic". Products with 95% organic ingredients can use the word "organic". Both may also display the USDA organic seal. A third category, containing a minimum of 70% organic ingredients, can be labeled "made with organic ingredients". In addition, products may also display the logo of the certification body that approved them. Products made with less than 70% organic ingredients can not advertise this information to consumers and can only mention this fact in the product's ingredient statement. Similar percentages and labels apply in the EU.”-Wikipedia

Things have certainly changed in the field of organic foods and we should be encouraged but also cautious at the same time.The words “natural” and “authentic” are being put on labels of foods and supplements and should not be misinterpreted as “organic”.This being said, we need to be diligent in learning the facts and reading the labels very carefully!As you will see very soon if not already, some of the commercial grocery store chains are starting to tout their “organic” sections, but remember to read those labels.Quite often there is not a clear separation of certified organic foods and commercial foods in these stores.

Super store Wal-Mart even announced last month that it would greatly expand its organic products nationally. We shouldn’t be surprised at that since the $15 billion organic industry has grown at least 20% annually for the past 15 years, according to the Organic Trade Association."Consumers' awareness and demand is now there," says Howard Solganik, a consultant. "The big retailers now believe they can sell reasonable quantities of organics."

These changes leave long time organic grocery chain Whole Foods executives excited yet concerned."This is the final sign that we're not a fad," says Walter Robb, co-president ofWhole Foods 185 stores in 30 states. But he adds: "They're chasing our shadow. We won't be tomorrow what we are today."He may very well be correct.If consumers start buying in commercial stores thinking that their new “organic sections” are all safe foods, they may be sorely mistaken.The incentive to buy at the commercial stores is obvious.There are more of them and based on their high volume, they are able to get better deals on pricing.The problem is, these stores will most likely be buying products from large manufacturers who are also trying to cash in on the rising healthy food demand.

What that means is, you may see more natural “wonder bread” type products out there, so make sure you are reading labels to ensure that these products still line up with what your body needs.As an example, I tell patients to eat whole wheat breads but many types of bread out there are labeled as wheat but still enrich and bleach their flour so you need to read the labels carefully and look for those key words.

Enriching involves the stripping out of over 40 vitamins and minerals while putting back three B vitamins and iron, typically.Hardly enriching by my definition!Bleaching is just as it sounds, pouring bleach in with the dough.The food industry can give as many reasons as they desire to explain why they bleach, but the truth is, its BLEACH! Would you pour it on your full dinner plates at home? Also, these breads which say they are made from “wheat” may use hydrogenated oil and high fructose corn syrup.Hydrogenated oil is the worst oil you could give your body and high fructose corn syrup is not much different when absorbed chemically in the body as white sugar or sucrose.

I know you are striving for excellence, and for that I applaud you!Make sure you take all the information in this blog to heart.This true info is being shared with you to prevent your body from failing, so apply it into your lifestyle!Keep up the good work, and I will speak to you again soon.

In health,

Thomas Von Ohlen, MS

Thomas Von Ohlen is a clinical nutritionist and developer of Plasma Pro software for doctors.In his 15 years in private practice he has helped thousands of people, from all over the world, achieve their health goals through education and product recommendations.His FREE newsletter is available at www.healyourbodynow.com

Sunday, June 25, 2006

Weight Loss Starts in the Colon

Did you know your colon is weakened by the build up of toxicmaterial found in the foods that you have eaten over the years? Many processed foods, such as milk, enriched and bleached flourand sugar, as well as packaged foods filled with preservativescontain toxic elements that slowly build up in the intestine.

This build up causes a hardened impacted glue to form within theintestines, decreasing the body's ability to absorb nutrients,lowering “metabolism” rates and causing unhealthy weight gain.When the body cannot absorb the nutrients in food properly,energy levels are lowered and the risk of serious illness isdramatically increased.

Certain detoxification supplements target the toxic build up inthe intestine, breaking it up and flushing it from the colon.Once these detoxification processes have been completed you willhave more energy, an increased feeling of over all wellness anda lower risk of potential illness. I will tell you how youwhere to go to get started on cleansing your colon soon, butfirst, let’s look at some more information about how a congestedcolon is impacting our societies health!

Findings published in the January 15, 2002 Journal of theAmerican Medical Association state that at least 47 millionAmerican adults - or more than one in five - have “metabolicsyndrome”, a disorder that often includes a beer belly, highblood pressure, poor cholesterol readings and high blood sugar,according to a disturbing new study. A “beer belly” is not justfrom drinking beer, it is usually formed from undigested food inthe lower intestines!

Metabolic syndrome has been recognized since at least the 1920s,though it has been called different things over the years.Though experts say the syndrome may be caused by a combinationof genes and lifestyle factors, lifestyle - including overeatingand a lack of exercise - are probably the most importantfactors, said Dr. Earl Ford of the Centers for Disease Controland Prevention, who led the study.

''When you consider that 50 to 60 million Americans havehypertension, about 60 percent of adults qualify as overweightor obese, and there are 16 million Americans with diabetes, I knewthe number would be fairly large,'' Ford said. Metabolic syndromegreatly increases the risk of diabetes, heart attacks and stroke.

The CDC reached its estimate by using the first-ever specificdefinition of the syndrome developed by the National Institutesof Health. The definition could help doctors identify and treatpatients by getting them to lose weight, eat better and get moreexercise.

According to the NIH definition, metabolic disorder is presentwhen a patient has any three or more symptoms: a waist measuringat least 40 inches for men and 35 inches for women; levels oftriglycerides - fats that circulate in the blood - of at least150 milligrams per deciliter; HDL levels of less than 40 mgs inmen and less than 50 mgs in women; blood pressure of at least135/80; and blood sugar of at least 110 mgs.

Dr. Margo Denke, a professor of medicine at University of TexasSouthwestern Medical Center in Dallas, said ''This is onesyndrome that is exquisitely lifestyle-sensitive - it's an areawhere we can get people to pay attention and if they do payattention, they’re big rewards,'' she said.

Obviously big rewards include more than just losing weight here.A long and high quality life is the biggest reward you canreceive when you apply the TRUE information we bring to youthrough the HYBN newsletter. Keep after it, we believe in you!For more information and products about weight loss throughcolon cleansing, click here!

Be well,

Thomas Von Ohlen, MS

Thomas Von Ohlen is a clinical nutritionist and developer of Plasma Pro software for doctors.In his 15 years in private practice he has helped thousands of people, from all over the world, achieve their health goals through education and product recommendations.His FREE newsletter is available at www.healyourbodynow.com

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

5 Tips to Fighting the Common Cold

Did you know that the U.S. spends $40 Billion a year on the common cold but you could prevent it for next to nothing?

Yes, you heard right, the common cold costs the U.S. economy roughly $40 billion a year, much more than other conditions like asthma, heart failure, and emphysema.

Before I share the tips with you, let’s look at the statistics.

"From a bottle of cough syrup to missed time at work and school, the price tag of catching a cold really adds up," says researcher A. Mark Fendrick, MD, with the Consortium for Health Outcomes, Innovation, and Cost Effectiveness Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His study appears in the Archives of Internal Medicine. In it, he reports the results from a nationwide telephone survey of more than 4,000 U.S. households. Nearly 75% reported suffering from a cold within the last year, with an average of 2.5 episodes.

"A cold is the most commonly occurring illness in humans, so it was no surprise that there are approximately 500 million colds each year in the U.S.," says Fendrick. "What was a surprise is how often the public uses the health care system to treat a cold."

Those surveyed reported their doctors' bills, over-the-counter medication costs, and costs of prescription drugs. They also reported days when work and school were missed, a cost that is generally overlooked, says Fendrick. Fendrick found that

Americans spend $2.9 billion on over-the-counter drugs and another $400 million on prescription medicines for symptom relief. Also, more than $1.1 billion are spent annually on the estimated 41 million antibiotic prescriptions for cold sufferers -- even though antibiotics have no effect on a viral illness.

"We found that the common cold leads to more than 100 million physician visits annually at a conservative cost estimate of $7.7 billion a year," Fendrick says. "More than one-third of patients who saw a doctor received an antibiotic prescription. While these unnecessary costs are problematic, what is more concerning is how these treatment patterns contribute to the development of antibiotic resistance, a significant public health concern."

The study reports that an estimated 189 million school days are missed annually because of a cold. Also, parents missed 126 million workdays in order to stay home to care for their child.

When added to the workdays missed by employees suffering from a cold, the total economic impact of cold-related work loss exceeds $20 billion. "Because there is no cure for the common cold it gets far less attention than many less common conditions," Fendrick says. "An intervention that would effectively prevent or treat the cold would have a huge clinical and economic impact, far greater than for chronic diseases that we hear about on a regular basis."

Wow, the last time I checked there IS a cure for the common cold it's called a healthy immune system, unfortunately you can't make much money by helping someone build one, so our health care industry isn't interested!

Here are the 5 simple tips that will help you prevent and fight the common cold:

1) Sleep! Most research has shown that the optimal level of sound sleep a person should get a night is 8 hours. Without it your body can not fight off outside invaders such as bacteria and virus’

2) Water intake. If you are not drinking 8-10 twelve ounce glasses of purified water a day your body will have a hard time executing the crucial steps needed for a healthy immune system.

3) Avoid sugar and white flour intake. In the October 1993 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine there is a study that shows “the ingestion of 100 grams of sugar will stop the production of white blood cells for six hours.” White blood cells are what fight bacteria and virus’ in the human body. Without normal white blood cell production the immune system will not function.

4) Wash your hands through out the day. Use hot water and regular soap, not anti-biotic soap which weakens the immune system.

5) The daily supplementation of certain vitamins, minerals, and herbs will support the immune system to ward of infection. Some of the most effective supplements are; Vitamins A, C, and E, zinc, selenium, bio-flavonoids like quercetin, and herbs like Echinacea, St Johns Wort, Fenugreek, Cats Claw, and Astragalus.

So don’t wait for your immune system to fail! Put these 5 tips into action today!

Be well,

Thomas Von Ohlen, MS

Thomas Von Ohlen is a clinical nutritionist and developer of Plasma Pro software for doctors.In his 15 years in private practice he has helped thousands of people, from all over the world, achieve their health goals through education and product recommendations.His FREE newsletter is available at www.healyourbodynow.com

5 Tips to Burning Fat

Do you want to know how to burn fat? Here are five great tips to help you do it! It’s easier than you may think!

We trust you had a great holiday, but this time of year always finds many of us saying that what we received was a few extra and unwanted pounds. And now we want to know how to go about getting rid of them.

Yes, as we have talked about before, the Holidays seem to be an excuse for people to go overboard with their food indulgences. Well, now that we are towards the tail end of the Holidays, it's time to get started back.

To be straight forward, I want to start off by saying this.

The ONLY way to burn fat is through AEROBIC exercise.

That means it's time to get on the bike, treadmill, stair master, elliptical trainer, in the pool or on the road with your best jogging shoes. YES, by increasing your lean muscle mass through ANAEROBIC weight training you can increase your metabolism, but the majority of fat that your body will burn is going to happen through AEROBIC exercise.

I wanted to give you all some tips for when you head back into the gym…hopefully in the next day or two!

1) If you are going into a commercial gym, make sure that you are familiar with all the machines. Do NOT be embarrassed to ask someone on the gym staff a question or two.

Believe me, it is a lot less embarrassing than having them call an ambulance because you used the machine wrong and injured yourself!

2) The most important thing to remember when exercising with weights is to focus on your form. The number one reason people are injured while working out is that they have incorrect form. Again, if you are not sure about your form, ask a trainer or staff member at your gym.

3) The number two reason for injury is that people use too much weight. Let's not worry about breaking world records just yet! If you injure yourself, you defeat the entire purpose of why you are working out in the first place. It’s pretty hard to exercise with a cast or brace on your arm or leg, as I know from personal experience!

4) Another key here is making sure that you are drinking enough water before, during, and after your workout. The bodies 300 trillion cells need water to transport nutrients into the cell for energy, and transport the by-products of the cell out.

5) Lastly, always wear comfortable and supportive clothing and footwear when working out. It's not a fashion show as some of those commercials on television would have us believe. You are there to do WORK! But that work is often fun when you are comfortable and relaxed.

And remember not to rush through your workout!

The first few workouts after the Holidays or when starting for the first time are always the toughest, but once you are a week into it you will feel like a million bucks and ready to take on the New Year with a great outlook! Never give up. We are here to support you because we believe YOU CAN DO IT!!!!

Be Well,

Thomas Von Ohlen, MS

Thomas Von Ohlen is a clinical nutritionist and developer of Plasma Pro software for doctors.In his 15 years in private practice he has helped thousands of people, from all over the world, achieve their health goals through education and product recommendations.His FREE newsletter is available at www.healyourbodynow.com

Thomas Von Ohlen is a clinical nutritionist and developer of Plasma Pro software for doctors.In his 15 years in private practice he has helped thousands of people, from all over the world, achieve their health goals through education and product recommendations.His FREE newsletter is available at www.healyourbodynow.com